five years after barack obama warned that anxious voters are just clinging to their guns and religion, wedge issues are cutting differently. more to the liking of democrats." wow. i've got our "hardball" strategists here tonight to argue this. former rnc chair, michael steele, an msnbc political analyst. steve elmendorf, a strategist who worked for dick gephardt, john kerry and hillary clinton. none of them actually won in the end. i'm just kidding. you're a very well respected consultant here and leader. let me ask you this. how do you think these issues, democrats are going to use these issues? can they bash a republican for being against same-sex? >> yeah. if you look at the numbers, chris, it's not just young people at 81%. it's young evangelicals are for gay marriage. catholics are for gay marriage. >> conservatives. >> young conservatives are for gay marriage. it's just moving and in the right districts, in a lot of places, it's going to be a big problem. >> how's your party react to that at the convention? do you fudge the issue? i can't see a candidate saying, and we're not go